On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:51:54PM -0400, Michael B. Allen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 12:02:55PM +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > Any Linux user/developper interested in locales and character sets
> > is today *strongly* recommended to upgrade to a glibc 2.2 based
> > distribution. There have been huge improvements between 2.1 and 2.2!
>
> Yeah but all the new distros use kernel 2.4 which seems to be the
> development kernel masqurading as the stable release. I'd like to see
> some VM stability before I throw this 2.2 rock away. They only recently
> discovered that page aging didn't work at all the last 9 releases (err,
> something fundamentally wrong there).
Markus meant _glibc_ version 2.2, which is different than _kernel_
version 2.2. Most very-up-to-date distributions such as the unstable or
testing flavors of Debian use glibc 2.2 with kernel 2.4. I use this
myself.
There are some rough edges around the 2.4 kernels, but nothing that
insurmountably interferes with use. I am quite happy with it (I have
2.4.9 on my home machine and 2.4.7 on my work machine).
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
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